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 <description><![CDATA[A few days ago Oracle started giving away for free one of the best IDEs for java technologies around. Besides being great tool for JSP editing it is one of the few tools which comes really close to WYSIWYG visual  editing, with customizable design-time representation for JSP custom  tags. This package includes generic support for Struts 1.x, JSF and Hibernate and plugins for supporting Tomcat, JBoss, Resin, Jetty, and WebSphere.
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:37:59 -0700</pubDate>
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 <description><![CDATA[This document describes changes that have been made to the ASP.NET MVC framework between the Preview 3 release and the current CodePlex Preview 4 release. It also describes changes that you must make in existing MVC applications to run with the new release.
What&amp;rsquo;s New
This section provides information about the new and changed features in this release.
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<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:54:18 -0700</pubDate>
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 <title>How to sell open source software aka 'Timing is everything'</title>
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 <description><![CDATA[The GPL explicitly allows you to charge a fee for delivery, service or whatever for your GPL-licensed code. There really is no debating that fact that you can legally charge for GPL software.
The only other argument here against selling GPL-licensed scripts is simply that some pirate or other evil-doer will nab your script and re-sell or freely re-distribute your application, making your pay-to-play model irrelevant. As a developer of a GPL-licensed application, access to which I charge a subscription fee, here are my thoughts based on experience:

 If your userbase is largely noobs, they don't have the know-how to resell or re-distribute your stuff (setting up a site to do this is not for the beginner).
 If your userbase is highly technical, they might re-distribute. Where does that leave you? Probably as the guy with the top hit on google which drives most people to your site for the product. This is especially true if you publish frequent updates and maintain a support forum for the application.
 People will get your stuff for free, GPL or commercial license. It happens, get over it. If you think you can stop all the piracy, then that's what you'll be doing 90% of your time.

The post title is an important consideration. Since you are the code originator, you will be first out with the script and, being a savvy business person, you have a good SEO campaign underway to get you to the top of google. You will also be the first person with updates, and your site should have the best support forum for your product, as well as documentation. With all that, you will find many users appreciating your efforts and coming back for repeat business. Also, forum posts and online documentation need not be free and may be copyrighted so that you have legal recourse should someone try to simply copy your entire site.
My business model charges $5 for a 24-hour access window to download the plugin. Users might also select a $20, 1-year option if they want to come back often for updates or don't want the hassle of storing the plugin on their local computer. Other creative ideas to value-add to our subscription plans is to pre-bundle your plugin with drupal so that when someone installs your modifed drupal release, your plugin is also installed, configured and ready to go.
You will of course receive some flak from people who disagree with you. Most of these are due to inherent confusion regarding the rights, privileges and protections offered by the GPL. And there will always be people who want something for nothing and may complain. Don't let that bother you, it's all part-and-parcel of running a business. I went from 'free-GPL' to 'commercial-GPL, and for the most part people were happy to pay as little as $5 for access and also support future development. As a comparative note, less than 0.5% of people donated to the project when it was 'free-GPL'.
So, don't worry, be happy. Make your GPL-licensed script. Publish it on Drupal and sell subscriptions for access. Provide the source when requested by your members (in my case, i just publish the source but not the installation packages. Developers take it for free all the time, but most of my clients are noobs and pay for access to the installer packages).]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:19:34 -0700</pubDate>
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 <title>Interview with Mambo Foundation President</title>
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 <description><![CDATA[Jem Matzen of Newsforge and The Jem Report has interviewed Ric Shreves, President of the non-profit Mambo Foundation. They talk a bit about open source project governance and then at length about the current state of development at Mambo and what the future looks like. Good for a little insight into the direction that project is headed...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2007 23:45:39 -0700</pubDate>
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 <title>Mambo 4.6.2 Released</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 06:28:16 -0700</pubDate>
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 <title>Would you Use Linux If It  Cost $300?</title>
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 <description><![CDATA[Would you use Linux if all distributions required you pay a licensing fee of $300? On a level playing field where all operative systems cost the same which one would you put on your PC?
I have seen hundreds if not thousands of posting and comments on how much better Linux is than Windows. But one thing sticks out more than anything is the fact that all arguements lead to a pushing of a Linux distribution that is free. Ubuntu is free so it has lots of people are ready to push it as an option to Windows. But the other distributions that cost seem to never get mentioned. Not even in the hottest flame war do the names Linspire, Mandrake, Redhat, Xandros comeup. 
This leads me to believe that a large percentage of Linux fandom is based in the cost free distribution of the software and not on its merits. I use Suse Linux and I pay for it. Mostly because it is the one Linux distribution that provides a stable KDE environment and the cost is reasonable at about $70 USD.
Now would I be a Suse user if it cost the same as Windows XP Pro? $300 USD? Uuuhh.. No. Not a chance. Linux is good but $300? Is any Linux distro worth that  much? I don't use Mac OS X because although so many say  that it is better I cannot bring myself to buy a Mac at  the prices they go for. I did it once and I will never do it again. 
Hmm, so I am thinking if you level the playing field and made the a choice based on the merits of the software and not on outside factors like the hardware and who produces it. Which would you actually pay $300 for?
A question that I ask myself sometimes after spending a whole day trying to get some KDE program to work is "Would I be doing this if the software costed more?". If I paid more would I put up with this constant process? or would I switch to something else like a Mac? The last question I have is... Would I be so hot to recommend a Linux distro if it costs as much as a Windows or a Mac OS?
Happy Publishing! 

 Would you Use Linux If It  Cost $300?:
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<pubDate>Sun, 10 Dec 2006 04:00:35 -0800</pubDate>
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 <title>Microsoft Moves to Remove Cost Free Distribution of Linux</title>
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 <description><![CDATA[Microsoft seems to want Linux distributors to pay for protection against a possibility that Microsofts intellectual property has been used in the Linux core used in Linux distributions. Steve Ballmer in a question answer session threatened those that do not pay up with an investigation into their Linux code!
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<pubDate>Sat, 18 Nov 2006 15:20:31 -0800</pubDate>
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 <title>Installing Wordpress Multiuser on Windows</title>
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 <description><![CDATA[Wordpress has finalized a stable multi-user version of its world famous blogging software. For months the home site was was covered in "beta" warnings. While many were using the software it was not advertised much. The final 1.0 version is ready to go although installing it locally on windows is a bit tricky.
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2006 08:35:24 -0800</pubDate>
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 <title>Jedit a Programming Text Editor for All Ocassions</title>
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 <description><![CDATA[The bottomline is that I like Jedit because it was the only editor or IDE that I could find that has syntax highlighting for eRuby, Ruby, PHP and does Unicode. Out of dozens of commercial and open source editors and IDEs and Jedit came out on top. It is the editor you need to have if you are going to do eRuby or Ruby. And it is free!
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2006 13:07:06 -0700</pubDate>
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 <title>Instant Rails for Instant Excitement in Ruby</title>
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 <description><![CDATA[Like many I suppose Ruby on Rails caught me in it's wave of hype. Once I read a few articles and saw that ActiveState Komodo editor had Ruby support I ordered both the Programming Ruby book and the Agile Ruby on Rails book from Amazon.com. But a month later after doing some experiments I dropped the whole thing. Why? Because Ruby on Rails installation and running on a windows desktop was too much trouble. I like to use wampserver. Installing Rails on to my wampserver instance of Apache 2 webserver made everything Rails.
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2006 08:11:58 -0700</pubDate>
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 <title>The Top 5 Open Source PHP Software Security Holes</title>
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 <description><![CDATA[What are the top five open source PHP software exploits? Well, Fantastico and Installatron are by far the worst culprits in the recent attacks on Joomla and other PHP software. Why? because although most PHP projects have security updates these updates do not reach the auto-installers soon enough.
Hackers know that auto-installation software exists and there are many that use it. They also know auto-installers do not update their software frequently. Auto-installers do not make the end user aware of the possibility that the software they are install may have a security hole or other problems that  may make a website a high securty risk.
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<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jul 2006 08:20:17 -0700</pubDate>
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 <title>10 things a PHP IDE has to  have</title>
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There are so many PHP IDE's out today and it is very hard to choose between them. In my investigations I have found that though there are many  they all fall short when it comes to the basic needs of a PHP developer. Here's a list of ten things that a PHP IDE must have.
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<pubDate>Mon, 29 May 2006 01:46:01 -0700</pubDate>
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 <title>Blogging with Desktop clients on Drupal</title>
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 <description><![CDATA[I decided that maybe I was not the only one who does not always have time to login to the website to post to a blog. So I turned on the Blog API module to this Drupal powered site and then set out to see just how easy or hard it would be to use. [readmore]
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2006 11:56:39 -0800</pubDate>
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 <title>Firefox updater should ask me by default</title>
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 <description><![CDATA[Just a few minutes ago I started a PC and then opened the browser window to surf. I then updated my site a bit and closed the browseer to clear some cached session material. When I opened the browser in the next second there it sat. In the middle of my browser window an update dialog. Not just any update dialog but one that already had been completed and was asking me to restart Firefox. Annoyed I restarted the browser and started using version 1.5.0.1 of Firefox. 
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2006 05:38:56 -0800</pubDate>
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 <title>Internationalization made easy through GNU gettext</title>
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 <description><![CDATA[GNU Gettext is ridiculously easy to use and works wonders; however, there is little documentation on how to use it beyond the rather verbose GNU gettext manual. I outline here a simple tasklist for internationalizing your applications...
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<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2005 06:09:40 -0800</pubDate>
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